Scoring great finds means driving lots of back roads, scouring the countryside for flea markets, antique malls and village yard sales. And great road trips need good music. Armed with Sirius Radio and my iPhone Shazam app, I have compiled some tunes that make for perfect driving playlists, and hobbled together a list of sorts for you. The key to a really good road trip playlist is that you are able to wail out the lyrics, top of your lungs-style, whether happy and bouncy (dance tunes) or moody and maudlin (unrequited love songs) and ’80s tunes fit that bill. Plus, so many of them are so lush sounding that the music absolutely fills your car (makes it easier to wail out those lyrics when you can’t really hear the sour notes you’re hitting). So if you see a crazy gal with a car filled of gack, seemingly singing at the top of her lungs, you will now know who I am.

Hope you enjoy the list, and if you want to make playlist suggestions, please do.

1. All of My Heart — ABC

2. Just Like Heaven — The Cure

3. Every Day I Write the Book — Elvis Costello

4. I Confess — The English Beat

5. Love Plus One — Haircut 100

6. It’s Different for Girls — Joe Jackson

7. That’s Entertainment — The Jam

8. Can’t Get Enough of You Baby — The Colourfield

9. Love is the Drug — Roxy Music

10. Big Mouth Strikes Again — The Smiths

11. Go! — Tones on Tail

12. It must be love — Madness

13. And She Was — The Talking Heads

14. A Message to You Rudy — The Specials

15. Night in my Veins — The Pretenders

16. Love Vigilantes — New Order

17. Only The Lonely — The Motels

18. Spanish Bombs — The Clash (technically a 1979 song, but I listened to the London Calling album quite a lot in the ’80s)

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